I am still impressed with Shopify, but when I logged in recently to my Shopify account, I saw that Shopify’s “blogging” functionality is weak. Very weak. When I saw that there was an app to import a WordPress blog into Shopify, I laughed, and went ahead creating a Shopify importer for WordPress.

Import Shopify Products as Blog Posts

Export your products from Shopify (Go to Products, click on Export Products, then Export all products). This will save a CSV file to your computer.

In WordPress, go to Tools > Import. Click on Shopify.

Follow the instructions, select the CSV file from your computer

Click the Upload file and import button

When products are imported, the tags are converted to WordPress tags, vendors are converted to categories (if selected), and all the product information is stored as a Custom Field for the post or page.

There are plans to expand the plugin to add additional functionality. What would you like to be added to the plugin?

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Author: Zack Katz

Zack Katz is the President of Katz Web Services and the developer of WordPress plugins with over 700,000 downloads. He lives in Southwest Colorado with his wife and two cats.
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do you have an example of how this looks once complete? sounds intriguing, but i’m having a hard time picturing how it works. and does it automatically update when you add more products to shopify or do you have to keep exporting/importing?

I can’t get the shopify import to wordpress to work. The products exist in shopify. The CSV is correct (even though I took out some of the fields). The instructions track, but nothing happens. I get an empty wordpresss file saying, in part, I may have to adjust my ini.php – which I can’t find at my hosting server. What can I do?

Hi, I’m looking to transfer the content from our shopify blog to a new wordpress blog. We don’t really need our product info transferred, just the content from our blog. Can this app do this? Thanks in advance.

I need to copy my blog from Shopify to WordPress as well, any chance of this functionality? It looks like I will have to cut and paste every blog post as there is no “export” function from the shopify blog

Seems pretty useless to me unless I am missing something. I was able to import my products but they were not imported as something that could be purchased, merely a blog post on the site. My guess is that I would have to manually go in and create a link to every post for the actual product that would then divert them to the store. Is this right or am I missing something here?

I appreciate how fast it imported, but when POST was mentioned and they came in a PAGES without categories, that is not a happy thing. Also, associated image if available and link to “buy” on shopify would be REALLY helpful, since at this point, I’ll have to try to import again as POSTS with categories and then go in, add each image and link. Saved some time, but not much.

Duoh, found the checkbox that chose pages. Sorry about that. Back to the image and link. Those would be helpful, but you saved me a TON of time for an artist friend. Thank you. Love the update feature, too.